Texan has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am new to Perl, so be kind.
I am trying to generate a progress bar. I need it to be only console based. I think I have the theory worked out, but cannot get the end result. I know that I start with a number and I have the max number but, how do I get the system to generate the progress bar? I am looking for a simple:
********33%
type of bar. But I am willing to use any code willingly given.
Thanks

Have you seen the author/maintainers for that code? Damian, Autrijus, and Ingy. Gods, talk about a trifecta of Perfect Perl Prowess!

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Cheers for this suggestion, have never come across that module before and it looks perfect. I like to write lots of debugging friendly code in my scripts and have been using trailing "if $debug=1;" or similar. Smart::Comments makes all that so much nicer and neater.